June 19, 2013

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  • Live-action Archie comics movie planned

    By JAKE COYLE | 06/06/13 07:25 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Archie's old Riverdale gang is headed to the big screen. Archie Comics announced Thursday that Warner Bros. will produce a live-action film based on the comic's characters, including Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead. It will be the first feature film for the 72-year-old...

  • Movie review: 'The Internship' doesn't get the job done

    By Brian Hughes | 06/06/13 04:55 PM

    Besides being a two-hour infomercial for Google, "The Internship" is an unending collection of greeting-card sentiments about true happiness and a watered-down meditation on the generational schism in a modern economy. But it also wears an old-school charm that makes the syrupy message easier...

  • Films of Esther Williams, who died in Calif. at 91

    06/06/13 02:45 PM

    Films of Esther Williams: "Andy Hardy's Double Life," 1942 "A Guy Named Joe," 1943 "Bathing Beauty," 1944 "Thrill of a Romance," 1945 "Ziegfeld Follies," 1946 "The Hoodlum Saint," 1946 "Easy to Wed," 1946 "Till the Clouds Roll By," 1947 "Fiesta," 1947 "This Time for Keeps," 1947 "On...

  • Family: Swimming champion turned movie star Esther Williams has died

    06/06/13 02:00 PM

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Family: Swimming champion turned movie star Esther Williams has died.

  • Indian star Amitabh Bachchan to act in TV series

    06/06/13 10:30 AM

    NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan says he'll make his television acting debut in a new series this year. Bachchan announced the new and not-yet titled show to reporters in Mumbai on Wednesday. The series, to be aired on the Sony Television channel, will focus on social issues....

  • The Hollywood Reporter's best stories of the week

    06/06/13 09:15 AM

    The Hollywood Reporter's list of its 10 best stories of the week: WILL SMITH'S 'AFTER EARTH' APOCALYPSE: WHO LOSES MOST? As the sci-fi bust heads toward a loss in the tens of millions, fallout touches Sony, M. Night Shyamalan and the star once considered box-office royalty....

  • Paris Jackson now in all-too-familiar spotlight

    06/06/13 07:15 AM

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Until he died in 2009, Michael Jackson was fiercely protective of his children (save for that one balcony-dangling incident). He covered their faces when they went out with him so they might enjoy the kind of normal childhood he missed out on as a member of the Jackson 5....

  • Defense report: Post-bin Laden raid security lapse

    06/05/13 09:30 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A draft report by Pentagon investigators says that several weeks after Leon Panetta oversaw the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the then-CIA director revealed the name of the raid commander in a speech attended by the writer of the film "Zero Dark Thirty." Panetta...

  • Capsule reviews of 'The Internship,' 'Much Ado'

    06/05/13 08:45 PM

    "The Internship" — There are really three movie stars headlining this movie: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, and Google. Actually, it's a surprise Google doesn't get top billing over the humans, so adoringly is the company displayed. But if you can get past this Mother of All Product Placements,...

  • Review: Whedon's 'Much Ado' is charming if slight

    06/05/13 08:00 PM

    Joss Whedon's bare-bones "Much Ado About Nothing" is the cinematic equivalent of Shakespeare in the parking lot — and proof, again, that it doesn't take much doing to bring Shakespeare to life. The circumstances of this low-budget, black-and-white "Much Ado" is already well known: Whedon shot...



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